Prepared foods (except frozen) merchant wholesalers · California

Bitchin' Sauce, LLC

Carlsbad, CA · ~76 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
12.0
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Bitchin' Sauce, LLC runs at 545% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Prepared foods (except frozen) merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Bitchin' Sauce, LLC: 12.0 TCR = 545% of Prepared foods (except frozen) merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Bitchin' Sauce, LLC safety composite

Bitchin' Sauce, LLC scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 91% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 12%), blended into one 0-100 breakdown against same-industry peers. A missing measure drops out and redistributes its weight rather than deflating the score. This is a per-dimension breakdown, distinct from the single letter grade above it (which weights TCR alone against the BLS industry benchmark).

D

49/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 11.99 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% of industry peers

DART rate
A 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 91% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% of industry peers

Benchmarked live against every credibly-rated employer in the same NAICS industry code in the current OSHA extract (a segment must have at least 8 rated peers to benchmark). Not a legal or compliance determination; PlainSafetyScore's own weighting (TCR 40%, DART 35%, fatalities 25%).

TCR Δ

−8.1

2021→2024

Bitchin' Sauce, LLC injury rate improved

Bitchin' Sauce, LLC's TCR fell 8.1 from 8.1 in 2021 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 30.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=8.1 · 2022=30.0 · 2023=9.8 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424490 · Carlsbad, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 12.0 · 545% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #82/114
  • PHOTO Windham Pepsi Cola B…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~76 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Windham Pepsi Cola Bottling Company, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Bitchin' Sauce, LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers

TCR

What this shows Bitchin' Sauce, LLC averages 12.0 TCR (545% of the Prepared foods (except frozen) merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

Bitchin' Sauce, LLC TCR series: 2021=8.1 · 2022=30 · 2023=9.8 · 2024=0 · BLS 2.2

Where Bitchin' Sauce, LLC falls in its industry

1,278 Prepared foods (except frozen) establishments

Safer than 12% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #82 safest of 114 Prepared foods (except frozen) employers in California.

Bitchin' Sauce, LLC (76 employees, TCR 12.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 73 employees and a TCR of 6.0 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 30 entities by Average employees (X) and Total Case Rate (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Larger & higher-riskSmaller & higher-riskLarger & saferSmaller & safer than peers 0100200300400500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Bitchin' Sauce, LLC
Bitchin' Sauce, LLC (76 employees, TCR 12.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 73 employees and a TCR of 6.0

Bitchin' Sauce, LLC has more employees than the Prepared foods (except frozen) merchant median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.0. Workforce size and injury rate do not always move together within the same industry -- some of its smaller peers run higher rates than its larger ones, and vice versa.

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2024 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 9.8 9.8 6 1 0
2022 30.0 28.4 3 15 0
2021 8.1 6.8 2 4 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424490 · CA · Carlsbad

1,278 Prepared foods (except frozen) merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 218 employers in Carlsbad, CA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Windham Pepsi Cola Bottling Company, Inc. 12.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR SAGAMORE MA 12.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR FRESNO CA 12.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR KS - Lenexa - 9960 Lakeview - The American Bottling Company 11.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE CAL-O ADMINISTRATION 76 FTE
STATE-SIZE 3181_6797 76 FTE
STATE-SIZE J&J Labor,Inc. 76 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fujishige Farms, Inc. 76 FTE
CITY-NEAR Thermo Fisher Scientific 2,234 FTE
CITY-NEAR Legoland California Resort 2,055 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bergelectric Corp. CA 1,520 FTE
CITY-NEAR Life Sciences Solutions Group (LSG) Remote Employees 1,350 FTE
NAT-TCR Martinson Construction 12.0 TCR
NAT-TCR The Hope Source, Inc. 12.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Colonial Trailways 12.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Vineland NJ FXFE-VNL 12.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Delta Steel #319 76 FTE
NAT-SIZE L&M Fleet Supply Cloquet 76 FTE
NAT-SIZE PA - Maytex 76 FTE
NAT-SIZE IN - Nike Assist 76 FTE

Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →

Data Source: OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA), mandatory establishment-level injury/illness reports. Grades compare employer Total Case Rate (TCR) to BLS IIF industry benchmarks. Data covers years reported by this establishment: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.